down with a green runny/stuffy/stinky nose. am thinking of green mucoid colonies in mark taylor practs, but for the life of me i can't rmb any, except the very impressive golden yellow staph aureus colonies. and the nice beta hemolytic strep pyogenes, which i think were grey. quite sure they weren't green. and that's a pretty good thing, unless my mucinous secretions vary form the biochemical makeup of blood agar so much that the colonies have to put on green camo cream to hide in my nose to wreak havoc... i should be safe from the harbingers of doom. called ARF and AGN. ARF and AGN are good friends. but the former is more commonly seen in young ladies, whereas AGN prefers little kiddies. and being disguised as the benign looking but malicious underneath neighborhood uncle paedophile waving little lollies, AGN comes on as a strep throat, gets settled down in the kidneys, and pretty much makes frothy pee out of the poor freaked out sick kid (and possibly his entire family and extended kampong) until he/she spontaneously recovers in a couple of weeks. the nice part of the ending is that AGN rarely scars the kidneys permanently, except in adult cases, which are rather rare to start off with. (raises eyebrows at those who refuse to contemplate the necessary evil of growing up and acting maturely/their age) whatever. i think i'm too sick to think straight. i'm quite screwed by this bout of URTI, much as i don't want to admit it myself. the dry cough's just getting started, i know. and it's already sounding like a symphony of old uncles from the Hack's sweets company ad. am either looking down my lumpy red throat at a particularly virulent little bugger and his friends (waves pentorch gloomily into the recesses of my palatopharyngeal folds) who hasn't seen the insides of my system for YEARS (i'm serious - trust me, when u need a handy little cough and flu to help you get past a certain critical barrier, like, say, NAPFA... they evade you like YOU'RE the bugger) or i'm more immunocompromised than my happily fluorescing white cells are willing to let on. either way, 2 rounds of URTI (bacterial - backed up by solidly green exudates pouring candidly out my respiratory tract) and 1 case of cystitis (reads off the list of top 5 causative agents in a rolling monotone - E.coli, Klebsiella, Staph. saprophyticus, AdenoV 11/21 hemorrhagic cystitis, Staph. epidermidis. Nosocomial - Psuedomonas, Staph aureus, but STILL E.Coli and Kleb primarily)... wait where was i? oh yeah. self piteous complaining. so, 2 cases of URTI and 1 case of (most probably bacterial) UTI and u've got some really bad alliteration and some worrying to do. like... think hepatic failure? lolx. ohkay so that's totally ER/Grey's anatomy but then... my immunity's really been quite a point of self-satisfaction, really. the fact that i've been (quite inconveniently) immune to colds, flus, GE etc that get the rest of the population makes me rather happy. but i've been GE-ing, coughing, sniffing, and seeing the toilet basically much more than i'd like to (or should, considering that tis the season for full scale panicked mugging and here i am enjoying pizza and trashy magazines) so that makes me wonder. when i've got time after the exams, i'll probably take a bit more time to wonder. since there's not much else i can do in that 24ml of atrophied gel called cerebral matter up there in my calvaria, anyway. besides going into absence seizures. heck, the way i go into daydreaming trances, one'd think i were paid to undergo some freakishly unethical electrode implantation into my medial temporal lobe just for the heck of seeing an idiot drool onto her neuroscience notes for 20minutes without processing a single word... at the rate of about 3 per hour (give or take a couple of seconds for postictal recovery). the irony, the irony. one can almost taste it... what the *^%$ is an absence person doing with a set of epilepsy notes???? :P

i can almost imagine myself having alzheimer's from the time of the previous set of CAs to right about now... continuing into the pros... (stands and runs around shrieking ululantly in Somalian swear words)

since the brain is immunologically privileged... can i apply for a transplant? what i've got seems to have next to no function at all left... >_<

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